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Prep Time: 150 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 150 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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Something like a delicious cross between a danish and a kolache using a native fruit. Ingredients:
4 1/4 cups unsifted flour |
1/2 cup granulated sugar |
2 teaspoons salt |
2 (1/4 ounce) packages yeast |
3/4 cup milk |
1/2 cup water |
1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine |
1 egg, room temperature |
2 cups chokecherries, pitted |
1 cup chokecherry juice |
1/4 cup granulated sugar |
1/4 cup cornstarch |
1 cup confectioners' sugar |
1 -2 tablespoon milk (to get to drizzling consistency) |
Directions:
1. For filling:.
2. Blend chokecherry juice with sugar and cornstarch.
3. Cook, stirring constantly until thickened and clear.
4. Add pitted chokecherries.
5. Cool.
6. For dough:.
7. In large bowl mix 1 cup flour, sugar, salt and undissolved yeast.
8. Combine milk, water and butter or margarine in sauce pan and heat over low heat until liquid is very warm (120 to 130 degrees).
9. Butter/margarine doesn't need to have melted completely.
10. Gradually add to dry ingredients and beat 2 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally.
11. Add egg and 1/2 cup flour.
12. Beat at high speed 2 minutes.
13. Add enough additional flour to make a stiff batter.
14. Cover bowl tightly with foil.
15. Chill in refrigerator 2 hours or overnight.
16. Remove dough from refrigerator and let warm up and raise slightly, about 1/2 hour.
17. Turn dough out onto lightly floured board, divide into 18 pieces.
18. Roll each piece into a rope, 15 inches long.
19. Hold one end of each rope in place and wind dough around loosely to form coil.
20. Tuck end firmly underneath.
21. Place on greased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
22. Cover.
23. Let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
24. Make indentations about 1 inch wide in center of each coil.
25. Pressing to bottom.
26. Fill with chokecherry filling,.
27. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until done.
28. Remove from pans and cool on wire racks.
29. While cooling, make icing.
30. When cool, drizzle with thin icing.
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